EARLY CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-BASED SERVICES | NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES
130 Fisher Pond Road, Saint Albans, VT 05478
Voice - Other | 24-Hour Emergency Services
Voice - Other | Toll Free
By Telephone; Appointment Required
Sliding Scale
Grand Isle County, Vermont
Franklin County, Vermont
Description
Provides services that fall under two main umbrellas with support from the prenatal period through high school graduation, with the goal of facilitating success and well-being across a lifetime. The first set of services are part of the Parent Child Center that provides expertise on prevention and early intervention services such as parenting, early childhood development, education, referral, and related services to prospective parents and families with young children, including those whose children are medically, socially, or educationally at risk. These programs serve children in the prenatal stage to age 6. School Based Services range from preventive models supporting school-wide systems, to providing lower-intensity clinical care, to small group or one on one behavior support, to an alternative educational environment at the Soar Learning Center.
Last Assured
01/08/2025
Providing organization
NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES
Northwestern Counseling and Support Services (NCSS) is the designated community mental health agency for Franklin and Grand Isle Counties under contract with Vermont Department of Mental Health to provide acute and long-term behavioral health care services to people with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and other mental health problems, substance abuse and/or developmental challenges. NCSS provides emergency and crisis intervention services for adults, children, adolescents and their families, as well as substance abuse treatment services and also operates a parent child center. They provide integrated health services as they embed clinicians in local primary care offices as well as within law enforcement.
